Yep

I didn’t think anyone expected the Republicans to do anything about the subsidies, that’s why everyone was upset with democrats capitulated.

Their arguement was that the Republicans would then “own” the increase, which does seem to be playing out that way.

Personally I think folding was a stupid move, but I guess time will tell.

Dr Seuss drew some comics with a similar message:

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-dr-seuss-satirized-america-first-decades-donald-trump-made-policy

Apparently he’s not wrong

UAE called CAIR a terrorist organization based on suspected ties to the Muslim Brotherhood (an organization that multiple Middle East/European countries have classified as a terrorist organization).

Now, that doesn’t mean either organizations are actually terrorist organizations, but some countries have labeled them as such.

Ah, she must have also seen Bend Her - the Futurama episode where bender changes genders to win at the Olympics (and subsequently woos calculon).

Yeah, I was thinking that too. Of course they’re going to try to get the most money out of you, it feels like fixed rate mortgages though at least give the buyer some leverage.

They make it sound like lenders game the system to make the fixed rate loans not super beneficial (refinance costs/etc.). I have no idea how true that is, but even if it is, having a fixed amount you owe each month is so much easier for the everyday person.

I can’t imagine having a variable rate loan and then finding out due to the Fed raising rates that I know owe another couple hundred per month.

Maybe this is a “whoosh”, but this is something the IRS (under Trump) decided to do. So no voting was directly involved.

I get where you are coming from.

I think the hard part is it’s hard to know how sincere these people are behind their personas. Like Trump playing down covid while taking the vaccine himself, where does the grift start and end.

I’m sure she really did grieve his passing, but at the same time it feels like this is all publicity stunts to cash in on his death. I know I wouldn’t be up to a big public appearance like that if my SO had been murdered.

It only matters if the house actually comes back from it’s prolonged recess (most likely to avoid voting on Epstein files).

Even then, it’s unlikely for the house to pass this as Republicans have a much larger majority there.

It really never changes does it.

It just reads like an excuse.

Trump isn’t supposed to be able to deploy the national guard the way he did, he wasn’t allowed to move funds for the wall, he shouldn’t be able to decimate the Dept of Education, they shouldn’t be able to deport people without a trial.

The Trump admin can almost do anything it wants, so they could use the funds, they’ve chosen not to.

Who likes him?

Snub usually has a negative connotation for the one doing the snubbing. Additionally they didn’t ignore him, they just called out his bad behavior.

Good to know, most of what they were saying didn’t sound too far off, but only skimmed it. I’m not a huge crypto person to begin with though, so I may just shrug off some of their bias.

I get why it’s so hard to understand, economics (even when studied) isn’t really a science and a lot is based in vibes.

Bitcoin is a fascinating example of a modern day commodity based system. Theoretically there is a finite amount of bitcoin that can exist, meaning there is a limited supply that controls the “market”. And as we can see in the bitcoin market, commodity has its own problems (most notably people don’t really want to spend it).

There are even some research done in the space, I’m not familiar with the Cato institute, but there write up here seems like a decent explanation of gold vs bitcoin - https://www.cato.org/blog/how-bitcoin-system-unlike-gold-standard

No, all those graphs tell very different stories and even if they did, it wouldn’t inherently mean the transition to fiat was the problem.

While graphs can help tell a story, they aren’t really statistical proof. Especially because Healthcare is a complicated field with a lot of factors that could impact overall outcomes.

Some of the major things that ACA did was change how preexisting conditions were covered as well as children being able to stay on Healthcare until they were 26 and medicaid expansion.

The other major changes, like health insurance markets were so heavily attacked that the benefits from them were never able to really materialize.

While I agree that we aren’t seeing the outcomes we’d hope for, I would largely blame that on Republicans who repeatedly waste time trying to revoke the ACA rather than pushing policy that actually tries to improve things.

And even then Republicans have been constantly chipping away at it and trying to repeal it.

I feel like a lot of people forget that Healthcare was a lot worse before ACA/Obamacare and that’s in its crippled state.

Just imagine what the US could do if we consistently elected people who cared about us.